"Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> Mr. Barker,
>
> Thank you for your response. Your message is valuable.
>
>> No we don't.  It's a new connection from Tomcat's point of view, totally 
>> indisigushable from any other new connection.
> Yes. You are right,
>
> For most browsers, do you have an idea about what is going to happen for 
> this?
>

They will (hopefully) close the connection to port 80, and open a new 
connection to port 443.

> After a request & response, on the keep alive connection.
> The web server starts to negotiate an SSL support by sending a Hello 
> request.
>

It won't, since it has no reason to renegotiate.

> If web browsers can process it correctly, then in such cases, it is 
> possible to use the web-app certificate.
> Mr. Barker mentioned:
>>...., but practically no browser supports the protocol extension that 
>>allows this, so it's currently not worth the effort of trying to support 
>>it.
> Do you mean web browsers will just ignore the received Hello request?
>

No, simply that practically no browser supports RFC2817 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt.

> At present, RealmBase.hasUserDataPermission just redirect the request to 
> https port.
> It doesn't do it in the way mentioned above.
>

Pretty much the only thing it can do.  The SSL port will be different than 
the normal HTTP port.

> I am looking forward to your opinion. Thanks.
>
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